Kake's Biological Word List

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Pericyte

A macrophage in outgrowths of small blood vessels, whatever they are. I suspect this is the word for a macrophage situated in tissue rather than inside a blood vessel.

This word added in 1997, last updated in 1997.
Kake's Biological Word List - comments and questions to Kake L Pugh (kake@earth.li).